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A Satirical New Animation by Greenpeace Swamps Boris Johnson in a Gushing Sea of Plastic | Colossal

Greenpeace’s new campaign opens with a single bottle bouncing off Boris Johnson’s head mid-press conference before a waterfall of plastic overwhelms the prime minister and carries him out to the street. The satirical and pressing animation pours the equivalent of … Continue reading

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That Time a Farmer was Given Ultimate Power Twice and Changed the World By Walking Away Both Times

 

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This tool will help improve your critical thinking – Erick Wilberding

Explore the technique known as the Socratic Method, which uses questions to examine a person’s values, principles, and beliefs. — Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought, was on trial. Many believed he was an enemy of … Continue reading

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Dog Uses Soundboard To Ask Big Existential Questions | My Modern Met

Bunny the Sheepdoodle has learned how to communicate with her human Alexis Devine by pressing buttons on the ground, in which each button corresponds to a different word. View this post on Instagram A post shared by I Am Bunny … Continue reading

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We’re Giving Nature a Vitamin Deficiency

Scientists are beginning to notice that more and more species are missing an essential vitamin, one that is crucial for their survival. Hosted by: Stefan Chin

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Dinosaurs Lived on the Other Side of the Milky Way, NASA Scientist Shows

NASA scientist Jessie Christiansen mapped out dinosaur evolution through the Milky Way’s rotation, showing that dinosaurs roamed Earth when it was in different parts of our galaxy.

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Why captchas are getting harder

[…] It’s not you — captchas really are getting harder. The worst part is that you’re partly to blame. A captcha is a simple test that intends to distinguish between humans and computers. While the test itself is simple, there’s … Continue reading

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CrowdScience – Why does grief leave me feeling this way? – BBC Sounds

Grief can be crippling. Why have we evolved to be so affected by loss? Grief is universal. It is something almost all of us will go through at some point. And it is something that the people we love will … Continue reading

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Sir Ken Robinson: Finding Your Element

In Finding Your Element, author and educator, Sir Ken Robinson, offers viewers a guide to finding and being in their element. He provides basic principles and tools to help guide them to do the work they enjoy with a sense … Continue reading

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Richard Kind in conversation with COLETTE Filmmakers

Richard Kind moderates a discussion with director Anthony Giacchino and producer Alice Doyard: filmmakers of Academy Award Nominated documentary short, COLETTE.

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